When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, I was sitting in my high school class one day. We had an assignment to do for reading and I was working workbook. I found it pretty easy, so I was working at a fast pace, especially since I was pretty bored in high school. It just wasn't my thing. So as I was doing my work and not distracting anyone else, my teacher walked over to me to see how I was doing. He realized I was jumping ahead in the workbook because I had answered everything else, and he started to yell at me in front of everyone. He scolded me in front the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook. He told me that I would never make it in the workplace if I didn't follow directions explicitly which didn't really make sense because I had done what he asked me to do already. I was just further than anyone else because I finished faster. He said I'd never make a living as a skateboarder which I was already doing, so it seemed to him that my future was bleak. He was my "careers" teacher and he didn't respect or understand the career I had chosen. He didn't see it as a career because he didn't like it so in his eyes I was going to fail because I couldn't follow his directions. So in the end, now that I'm making all of this money, he knows I didn't fail.
When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook. He told me that I would never make it in the workplace if I didn't follow directions explicitly. He said I'd never make a living as a skateboarder, so it seemed to him that my future was bleak.
When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook. He told me that I would never make it in the workplace if I didn't follow directions explicitly. He said I'd never make a living as a skateboarder, so it seemed to him that my future was bleak.